Alison J. Miller

Alison J. Miller

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Alison J. Miller is Assistant Professor of Asian Art History at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. She is currently completing a book manuscript on images of the women of the Japanese Imperial Family in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

History

Ōta Chōu’s Vaccination: Medicine and Modern Girls in 1930s Japanese Painting

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In the midst of the 2021 COVID-19 mass vaccination campaign, the “vaccine selfie” – often a self-portrait cell-phone snapshot taken in the car or at the pharmacy with a small adhesive bandage on the arm and a vaccination card in the hand – has become a popular social media trend in the United States. Yet,… Read more →

History

The Japanese Imperial Family Invented

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In May 2019, as now Emperor Emeritus Akihito passed the Chrysanthemum Throne to his son Emperor Naruhito, the world watched ceremonies and rites that appeared to be the timeless observations of the world’s longest continuous monarchy. Much was written throughout the course of the transition period on the unprecedented aspects of both the Heisei monarchy… Read more →